Once again, we're making up for all that the Academy ignores: the villainy, the sex, the other severed limbs — and the, uh, acting. (Make your own picks on Twitter and Facebook.)By Julian Sancton

Beard of the Year

Beard of the Year

Jeff Bridges's

Ever since its breakthrough role — coated in White Russian in The Big Lebowski — Jeff Bridges's beard has been his most expressive instrument. On Rooster Cogburn (True Grit), it reeked of whiskey, tobacco, and experience. And in Tron: Legacy, it was a testament to his character's humanity, a contrast to his eerily smooth-cheeked digital avatar.

Future Best Actor

Future Best Actor

Aaron Johnson

Artist-director Sam Taylor-Wood took a gamble when she entrusted the 20-year-old Johnson with the daunting role of young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy, in which he turned in one of the best biopic performances of all time. (Later, she would get engaged to him and have his child.) Then the makers of Kick-Ass cast Johnson as the world's scrawniest superhero. Beneath his downy, adolescent exterior seems to lurk the weathered spirit of a Johnny Depp or a Daniel Day-Lewis, with commensurate awards to come.